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Broadlands Archives MB2-30

Photographs, bound volumes, Lord Mountbatten tour diaries, Sir Ernest Cassel papers, Life and Times series papers, press cuttings, and papers of Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven

Summary catalogues can be accessed in the useful downloads section below, for more detailed descriptions of the papers see the Epexio Archive Catalogue.

MB2 Photograph albums and other volumes

MB2/A Photograph albums: Prince Louis of Battenberg (Louis Alexander Mountbatten, first Marquis of Milford Haven from 1917)

MB2/B Photograph albums: Princess Louise of Battenberg (later Queen of Sweden); Victoria, Princess Louis of Battenberg (Marchioness of Milford Haven from 1917)

MB2/C Photograph albums: Nona Kerr (Mrs Richard Crichton), lady in waiting to Victoria, Princess Louis of Battenberg

MB2/D Photograph albums: Prince George of Battenberg (second Marquis of Milford Haven)

MB2/E Photograph albums: Prince Alexander of Hesse; Prince Gregory Gargarine

MB2/F Photograph albums: Baroness Sophie Buxhoevden; Elisabeth, Grand Duchess Serge

MB2/G Photograph albums: royal families in Europe; Montenegrin family

MB2/H Photograph albums: Evelyn Ashley; Sybella Ashley; Maud Ashley (nee Cassel); William Wilfrid Ashley, Baron Mount Temple; sketch book of Emily, Viscountess Palmerston

MB2/I Presentation albums: Sir Ernest Cassel

MB2/J Visitors and calling books, 1884-1963

MB2/K Photograph albums: Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, 1920-2

MB2/L Photograph albums: visits and tours by Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, 1922-45

MB2/M Photograph albums: visits by Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, 1932-60

MB2/N Photograph albums: Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 1904-80

MB2/O Articles and photographs of houses, including Brook House, London, and 2 Wilton Crescent

MB2/P Address books, stamp and coin collections

MB2/Q Photograph albums, including of Mahatma Gandhi and of India; photographs, shooting script of In which we serve

MB2/R Photograph albums: visits by Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma, 1939-59

MB2/S Photograph albums: visits by Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 1939-76

MB2/T Game books: Classiebawn, County Sligo, Ireland; Adsdean; Broadlands estate; Lord Mountbatten's personal game book

MB2/U Account books, Broadlands estate books, cash and personal expenditure analysis book

MB3 Photographs, including for SACSEA, India, Chief of Defence Staff; family photographs for the Russian imperial family, Battenberg and Mountbatten families, Cassel and Ashley families, the royal family

MB4 Audio visual and video files

MB5 Bound volumes, mainly naval notes of Earl Mountbatten of Burma and inventories and lists of articles of Adsdean and Brook House

MB6 Books from Library of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, condolence books

MB7 Press cuttings, 1921, 1944-85

MB8 Tour diaries of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 1920-68

MB9 Sir Ernest Cassel press cuttings, 1910-11, 1921

MB10 Sir Ernest Cassel estate papers, 1894, 1914, 1920-69

MB11 Papers of Victoria, Princess Louis of Battenberg (Marchioness of Milford Haven from 1917): copies and translations of poems

MB12 Papers of Nona Kerr (Mrs Richard Crichton), lady in waiting to Victoria, Princess Louis of Battenberg

MB13 Life and Times series: photographs and papers, 1901-69

MB14 Life and Times series: continuity reports and sheets, 1966-8

MB15 Life and Times series: post production scripts

MB16 Sir Ernest Cassel Educational Trust papers, 1919-83

MB17 Press cuttings of Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, 1921-36, 1960-1

MB18 Press cuttings of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 1921-3

MB19 Press cuttings of first Baron Mount Temple, 1959-62

MB20 Address of Evelyn Ashley, 1891

MB21 Recollections of Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven (Victoria, Princess Louis of Battenberg)

MB22 Private Secretary papers

MB23 Reminiscences and notes for biographer of Earl Mountbatten of Burma

MB24 Tributes for Mountbatten's funeral

MB25 Mountbatten Memorial Fund

MB26 Mountbatten letter book, financial and inventions papers

MB27 Press cuttings of W.W.Ashley, Baron Mount Temple

MB28 Scrapbook of W.W.Ashley, Baron Mount Temple

MB29 Papers of Evelyn Ashley

MB30 Mountbatten additional papers

Diaries of Lord Mountbatten and Lady Mountbatten can be found as part of a digitisation project.

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